--- title: Beyond AI tools: Evolving software engineering... description: Dell's Jennifer St Pierre, SVP of Developer Experience and Transformation, argues that the hardest challenge in adopting agentic AI is not the technology but... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-ai-tools-evolving-software-engineering-organizations-for-the-agentic-era-6luqa2y8u twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Beyond AI tools: Evolving software engineering organizations for the agentic era | daily.dev og:description: Dell's Jennifer St Pierre, SVP of Developer Experience and Transformation, argues that the hardest challenge in adopting agentic AI is not the technology but... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-ai-tools-evolving-software-engineering-organizations-for-the-agentic-era-6luqa2y8u og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6luqA2Y8U.png og:image:alt: Beyond AI tools: Evolving software engineering organizations for the agentic era og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Beyond AI tools: Evolving software engineering organizations for the agentic era **[Engineering Enablement](https://daily.dev/sources/engineering_enablement)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Dell's Jennifer St Pierre, SVP of Developer Experience and Transformation, argues that the hardest challenge in adopting agentic AI is not the technology but the people transition. Drawing parallels to Agile, DevOps, and cloud adoption, she outlines five leadership imperatives: building shared understanding of why change is happening, defining a clear future state for roles, clarifying how engineering careers will evolve, creating psychological safety for experimentation, and aligning metrics and org structures with new ways of working. Key points include that compliance is not commitment, vague visions create fear, old metrics reinforce old behaviors, and while AI generates code, humans remain responsible for direction and judgment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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